The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 19

They took her there, gave her a knife, and said she must scrape at the iron stove.

Who acts: wishes, daughter · What happens: take, give, say, scrape · To what, where: daughter, knife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wishes, daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 took	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 knife	det
9	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 scrape	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 scrape	aux
15	scrape	scrape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 stove	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stove	det
18	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stove	compound
19	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 scrape	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	wishes = wish		daughter	there		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
2	give	past	wishes = wish not said here	a knife	daughter			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient knife=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	wishes = wish not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	scrape	must	daughter				at the iron stove	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at stove=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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